23 Bible Verses about Far From Here

Look, I will escape to a distant place; I will stay in the wilderness. (Selah)

Is this really your boisterous city whose origins are in the distant past, and whose feet led her to a distant land to reside?

After a few days, the younger son gathered together all he had and left on a journey to a distant country, and there he squandered his wealth with a wild lifestyle.

Therefore he said, "A nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and then return.

Though I scatter them among the nations, they will remember in far-off places -- they and their children will sprout forth and return.

He lifts a signal flag for a distant nation, he whistles for it to come from the far regions of the earth. Look, they come quickly and swiftly.

"Therefore say: 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.'

Then he said to me, 'Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles.'"

You will see a king in his splendor; you will see a wide land.

If I were to fly away on the wings of the dawn, and settle down on the other side of the sea, even there your hand would guide me, your right hand would grab hold of me.

Wisdom is directly in front of the discerning person, but the eyes of a fool run to the ends of the earth.

Yes, your land lies in ruins; it is desolate and devastated. But now you will be too small to hold your residents, and those who devoured you will be far away.

You sold Judeans and Jerusalemites to the Greeks, removing them far from their own country.

I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah. They will sell them to the Sabeans, a nation far away. Indeed, the Lord has spoken!

He will arbitrate between many peoples and settle disputes between many distant nations. They will beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations will not use weapons against other nations, and they will no longer train for war.

If the place he chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages just as you wish.

When he blesses you, if the place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

If the owner does not live near you or you do not know who the owner is, then you must corral the animal at your house and let it stay with you until the owner looks for it; then you must return it to him.

This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

So the five men journeyed on and arrived in Laish. They noticed that the people there were living securely, like the Sidonians do, undisturbed and unsuspecting. No conqueror was troubling them in any way. They lived far from the Sidonians and had no dealings with anyone.

No one came to the rescue because the city was far from Sidon and they had no dealings with anyone. The city was in a valley near Beth Rehob. The Danites rebuilt the city and occupied it.

Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, was taking a beating from the waves because the wind was against it.

The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!'